Why won't Big Pharma ever cure cancer? They reaped $100 billion on cancer drugs in 2014 - NaturalNews.com

Why won't Big Pharma ever cure cancer? They reaped $100 billion on cancer drugs in 2014 - NaturalNews.com

Why won't Big Pharma ever cure cancer? They reaped $100 billion on cancer drugs in 2014

 (NaturalNews) Critics of modern medicine have been particularly cynical
when it comes to how serious the industry and medical science are in
finding cures for some diseases, especially those which generate
billions of dollars in profits annually for drug makers.

In 2012 alone, for instance, Americans spent $325.8 billion on medications, and that was a year when medication spending declined for the first time in decades.

Spending
on cold and flu medications runs into the billions each year; so, too,
does spending on cancer -- both illnesses that some see as too lucrative
to cure.

As reported by Michael Snyder of the website End of the American Dream, Americans have a 1-in-3 chance of contracting some form of cancer in their lifetime. For men, the odds are closer to 1-in-2.

Further,
almost everyone in the country either knows someone who has had cancer
or has died from the disease. Snyder notes that it was not always this
way.

"Back in the 1940s, only one out of every sixteen Americans
would develop cancer. Something has happened that has caused the cancer
rate in this nation to absolutely explode, and it is being projected
that cancer will soon surpass heart disease and become the leading cause of death in the United States," Snyder wrote.